Saturday, June 20, 2015

Jakob Gimpel's hands playing Liszt's "Un Sospiro" in Letter from an Unknown Woman.

Every time
someone is playing a musical instrument in a movie, I can't help but pay
attention to how realistic the performance is. And since I'm an amateur piano
player myself (something my neighbors will never stop thanking for) I
particularly enjoy scrutinizing finger movements on the piano keyboard when an
actor is performing, or pretending to. Do you have the same compulsion?

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